The installation of the cameras, which are at the intersection of Stelton Road and Hadley Road and at the intersection of Stelton Road and New Brunswick Avenue, have corresponded to a 50 percent increase in overall accidents within 100 feet of the two intersections and a near doubling 500 feet out.

Rear-end collisions also doubled.

The study conducted by The Alternative Press of South Plainfield compared accident rates for the first six month of 2012, which had no cameras, to the first six months of 2013, when the cameras were installed.

"We were against the red light cameras from the start," South Plainfield Mayor Matt Anesh told the AlternativePress.com. "The cameras are supposed to cut the number of accidents, but that's not what we're seeing. They should come down."

Red-light cameras came to the state in 2008 in the form of a five-year pilot program for 25 towns. The program must be reauthorized in December 2014.

Five Middlesex County towns participate, including Piscataway, Woodbridge, Edison, East Brunswick and New Brunswick.